A web-based analysis has the advantage of capturing the views of a large and diverse population of women with a shared condition. Many of the accounts on the web forum are deeply personal ...

Question: I keep getting UTIs despite two courses of antibiotics. My sex life hasn’t drastically changed so I don’t think ...

Recently, media personality Abbie Chatfield posted on TikTok explaining she was starting a vaccine to help prevent UTIs. So ...

“First things first, if we can use it in recurrent UTI (and there’s a lot of women with recurrent UTI) then we can show that ...

UTIs have a stigma as an issue that mostly impacts women who sleep around a lot, but women get UTIs after sex with their boyfriends or husbands or after something like swimming in a lake or going ...

It should be taken into account that urine cultures were only carried out in presence of PCUTIs, therefore the high percentage of women with culture not done should be considered as a treatment ...

But research suggests that 25% of women with at least one UTI will go onto have recurrent UTIs – and some people live with the symptoms constantly, due to ‘embedded’ or ‘long-term’ UTIs.

with younger women typically averaging 0.5 UTIs per year. Recurrences are common, with most happening within three months of the initial infection, and 80% of recurrent UTIs (RUTIs) are due to ...

(16) Recurrent urinary tract infections, defined as three or more UTIs within 12 months, or two or more occurrences within six months, is very common among women — but these aren’t treated ...

Current use of hormonal contraception for birth control, compared with never use, among women younger than 40 years is significantly associated with a 22-fold higher prevalence of recurrent UTIs.

One 2016 study evaluated the effect of D-mannose on 43 women with active UTIs and a history of recurrent UTIs. For the first 3 days, participants took a 1.5-gram dose of D-mannose twice daily ...

7. Drink more water. In a 2018 randomised controlled trial, 140 pre-menopausal women with recurrent UTIs were assigned to a group either drinking an extra 1.5L water per day or no change in water ...